Housing annual report shows hard times

8:31 PM,
Oct. 26, 2010

Written by

Marcus Green
magreen@courier-journal.com

The waiting list for public housing and rental-assistance vouchers jumped 36 percent. Officials started 34 percent more home foreclosures. The number of homeless children in the city's public schools climbed by nearly 2,000.

Those are among the findings in the Metropolitan Housing Coalition's annual housing report, a wide-ranging study that assesses housing trends and conditions in the Louisville area.

"It's not an anomaly. We see that everything is really hard for people who are low-wage earners, people on fixed incomes," said Cathy Hinko, executive director of the coalition, an ...